| 1 | Perianth in 2 irregular series or 1 series, with 5-9 ± undifferentiated tepals; stamens in male flowers 4-8(-10) |  | (2) | 
  | + | Perianth in 2 series, with 4 or 5 sepals and 4 or 5 petals; stamens in male flowers 4 or 5 |  | (14) | 
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  | 2 (1) | Gynoecium in female flowers 1(or 2)-carpelled and leaf rachises not winged but canaliculate with sides of channel rarely slightly spreading at apex of rachis. |  | 32 Z. wutaiense | 
  | + | Gynoecium in female flowers 2-5-carpelled or if 1-carpelled then leaf rachises with wing to 6 mm wide on each side |  | (3) | 
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  | 3 (2) | Fruit follicles stipitate |  | (4) | 
  | + | Fruit follicles not stipitate |  | (6) | 
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  | 4 (3) | Leaflet blades 0.7-1.3 cm wide. |  | 41 Z. stipitatum | 
  | + | Leaflet blades usually at least 1.5 cm wide |  | (5) | 
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  | 5 (4) | Leaves 3-5(-11)-foliolate; follicles apically shortly beaked. |  | 29 Z. dimorphophyllum | 
  | + | Leaves 5-15-foliolate; follicles not apically beaked. |  | 40 Z. simulans | 
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  | 6 (3) | Leaf rachises usually conspicuously winged |  | (7) | 
  | + | Leaf rachises not conspicuously winged but sometimes with a distinct margin |  | (8) | 
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  | 7 (6) | Wings of leaf rachis extending to as much as 3 mm on each side; secondary veins of leaflet blades evident, 10-28 on each side of midvein; anthers in male flowers reddish purple prior to anthesis; gynoecium in female flowers 2-5-carpelled. |  | 30 Z. acanthopodium | 
  | + | Wings of leaf rachis extending to as much as 6 mm on each side; secondary veins of leaflet blades generally faint especially adaxially, 7-15 on each side of midvein; anthers in male flowers yellow prior to anthesis; gynoecium in female flowers 1-3-carpelled. |  | 31 Z. armatum | 
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  | 8 (6) | Fruit follicles pubescent; branchlets covered with setiform prickles and compressed pseudostipular prickles decurrent along branchlet and forming a wing joining them between nodes. |  | 39 Z. pteracanthum | 
  | + | Fruit follicles glabrous; branchlets without compressed pseudostipular prickles joined by a wing |  | (9) | 
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  | 9 (8) | Leaflet blades to 3 × 1.5 cm |  | (10) | 
  | + | Leaflet blades usually larger than 3 × 1.5 cm |  | (11) | 
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  | 10 (9) | Leaflet blades reddish brown to blackish brown when dry. |  | 37 Z. piasezkii | 
  | + | Leaflet blades grayish green to yellowish green when dry. |  | 38 Z. pilosulum | 
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  | 11 (9) | Leaf near inflorescence on fertile branchlet 3-foliolate, with terminal leaflet 4-6 cm wide. |  | 36 Z. motuoense | 
  | + | Leaf near inflorescence on fertile branchlet more than 5-foliolate, with terminal leaflet less than 3.5 cm wide |  | (12) | 
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  | 12 (11) | Leaf rachises terete, glabrous. |  | 35 Z. austrosinense | 
  | + | Leaf rachises with a distinct margin or pubescent |  | (13) | 
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  | 13 (12) | Leaflet blades abaxially flocculent along midvein and adaxially glabrous or both surfaces pubescent. |  | 33 Z. bungeanum | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially glabrous and adaxially hirsutulous to sparsely puberulent. |  | 34 Z. undulatifolium | 
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  | 14 (1) | Flowers 5-merous; trees or rarely shrubs |  | (15) | 
  | + | Flowers 4-merous; woody climbers, shrubs, or rarely trees |  | (22) | 
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  | 15 (14) | Shrubs; leaflet blades rarely wider than 2 cm, adaxially with trichomes and abaxially glabrous. |  | 28 Z. schinifolium | 
  | + | Trees; leaflet blades wider than 2 cm, adaxially glabrous or both surfaces with trichomes |  | (16) | 
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  | 16 (15) | Fertile branchlets unarmed, with small pith; leaf rachises winged |  | (17) | 
  | + | Fertile branchlets armed, with large pith; leaf rachises not winged |  | (18) | 
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  | 17 (16) | Gynoecium in female flowers 2(or 3)-carpelled; leaflet blades asymmetric, oblique at base. |  | 23 Z. avicennae | 
  | + | Gynoecium in female flowers 3(or 4)-carpelled; leaflet blades at base rounded to broadly cuneate, symmetric or asymmetric. |  | 24 Z. micranthum | 
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  | 18 (16) | Leaflet blades glabrous |  | (19) | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially and/or adaxially with trichomes |  | (20) | 
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  | 19 (18) | Leaflet blades dark green to light yellowish green when dry, abaxially glaucous. |  | 25 Z. ailanthoides | 
  | + | Leaflet blades reddish brown to blackish brown, abaxially not glaucous. |  | 26 Z. myriacanthum | 
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  | 20 (18) | Leaflet blades abaxially and adaxially with trichomes. |  | 26 Z. myriacanthum | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially with trichomes, otherwise glabrous |  | (21) | 
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  | 21 (20) | Leaflet blades abaxially with a soft woolly villous indumentum. |  | 27 Z. molle | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially pubescent. |  | 25 Z. ailanthoides | 
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  | 22 (14) | Gynoecium in female flowers 2- or 3-carpelled and styles usually recurved; follicles stipitate. |  | 29 Z. dimorphophyllum | 
  | + | Gynoecium in female flowers 1-carpelled or if 2-4-carpelled then styles usually erect to spreading-ascending; follicles not stipitate |  | (23) | 
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  | 23 (22) | Inflorescences terminal, cymose-corymbiform; pedicel at least 1 cm in fruit and purplish red like follicles |  | (24) | 
  | + | Inflorescences axillary and terminal, thyrsiform; pedicel rarely to 1 cm in fruit and not purplish red |  | (26) | 
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  | 24 (23) | Fruit pedicel 1-1.5 cm, ca. 1 mm wide; leaflet blades with numerous oil glands, midvein adaxially impressed and puberulent, margin of blade serrulate. |  | 20 Z. oxyphyllum | 
  | + | Fruit pedicel 1.5-4.5 cm, less than 1 mm wide; leaflet blades with inconspicuous oil glands, midvein adaxially ridged, plane, or impressed, margin of blade crenulate or entire toward base |  | (25) | 
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  | 25 (24) | Midvein on adaxial surface of leaflet blades ridged or plane toward apex, petiolules pubescent adaxially. |  | 21 Z. stenophyllum | 
  | + | Midvein on adaxial surface of leaflet blades impressed, petiolules glabrous. |  | 22 Z. esquirolii | 
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  | 26 (23) | Fruit follicles with prickles and/or trichomes |  | (27) | 
  | + | Fruit follicles with neither prickles nor trichomes |  | (29) | 
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  | 27 (26) | Fruit follicles with prickles and trichomes. |  | 19 Z. echinocarpum | 
  | + | Fruit follicles with trichomes, without prickles |  | (28) | 
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  | 28 (27) | Leaflets opposite; leaflet blades 7-19 × 5-8 cm. |  | 17 Z. collinsiae | 
  | + | Leaflets alternate to opposite; leaflet blades 6-8 × 2.5-3.5 cm. |  | 18 Z. liboense | 
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  | 29 (26) | Fruit follicles 1-1.5 cm; outer part of pericarp (exocarp and mesocarp) wider than endocarp. |  | 16 Z. dissitum | 
  | + | Fruit follicles to 0.9 cm; outer part of pericarp not wider than endocarp |  | (30) | 
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  | 30 (29) | Leaflets opposite |  | (31) | 
  | + | Leaflets alternate or partly opposite |  | (33) | 
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  | 31 (30) | Trees; leaflet blades asymmetric. |  | 3 Z. integrifolium | 
  | + | Woody climbers or shrubs; leaflet blades symmetric |  | (32) | 
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  | 32 (31) | Leaflet blades abaxially without oil glands along secondary veins, apex retuse at tip; petiolules obsolete or to 5 mm. |  | 1 Z. nitidum | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially with oil glands along secondary veins, apex not retuse at tip; petiolules ca. 1 mm. |  | 2 Z. xichouense | 
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  | 33 (30) | Leaflet blades abaxially, leaf rachises, and inflorescences tomentulose. |  | 4 Z. tomentellum | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially, leaf rachises, and inflorescences glabrous or puberulent |  | (34) | 
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  | 34 (33) | Leaves with numerous oil glands which project outward when dry |  | (35) | 
  | + | Leaves with few oil glands or oil glands inconspicuous |  | (38) | 
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  | 35 (34) | Fruit follicles not apically beaked; leaflet blade oil glands light yellow to brown when dry, pellucid. |  | 5 Z. glomeratum | 
  | + | Fruit follicles usually apically beaked; leaflet blade oil glands brown or blades blackish brown when dry |  | (36) | 
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  | 36 (35) | Leaves 3- or 7(or 9)-foliolate; leaflet blades at least 5 cm, lustrous when dry. |  | 6 Z. macranthum | 
  | + | Leaves 7-51-foliolate; leaflet blades rarely to 5 cm, dull when dry |  | (37) | 
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  | 37 (36) | Leaves 7-15-foliolate; leaflet blades symmetric or subsymmetric, midvein adaxially impressed. |  | 7 Z. rhombifoliolatum | 
  | + | Leaves 17-51-foliolate; leaflet blades asymmetric, midvein adaxially plane to ridged. |  | 13 Z. multijugum | 
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  | 38 (34) | Leaf rachises with straight prickles 5-10 mm. |  | 8 Z. leiboicum | 
  | + | Leaf rachises unarmed or with curved prickles rarely to 5 mm |  | (39) | 
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  | 39 (38) | Fruit follicles 7-8 mm; margin of leaflet blades entire. |  | 9 Z. laetum | 
  | + | Fruit follicles 5-6 mm; margin of leaflet blades crenate at least near apex or rarely entire |  | (40) | 
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  | 40 (39) | Pedicel of fruit and rachis of infructescences glabrous or sparsely puberulent. |  | 10 Z. scandens | 
  | + | Pedicel of fruit and rachis of infructescences puberulent or pubescent |  | (41) | 
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  | 41 (40) | Leaflet blades abaxially pubescent at least on midvein toward base or secondary veins. |  | 11 Z. kwangsiense | 
  | + | Leaflet blades abaxially glabrous |  | (42) | 
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  | 42 (41) | Fruit pedicel 7-10 mm; petiolules 4-10 mm, leaflet blade apices caudate. |  | 12 Z. khasianum | 
  | + | Fruit pedicel rarely more than 5 mm; petiolules 1-4 mm, leaflet blade apices acute, shortly acuminate, or shortly caudate |  | (43) | 
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  | 43 (42) | Leaflet blades 2-5 × 0.7-2.5 cm, apex acute or shortly acuminate; inflorescences to 3 cm; innovations glaucous. |  | 14 Z. calcicola | 
  | + | Leaflet blades 6-10 × 2.5-4 cm, apex shortly caudate; inflorescences to 26 cm; innovations not glaucous. |  | 15 Z. yuanjiangense |